In many references, mostly civil engineering, the second moment of area is referred as Moment of Inertia. Is that "really" correct? From my understanding, moment of inertia is analogous to mass in rotational motion, not the second moment of area.
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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?
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